As published in the Christ’s College magazine “College”, Issue 44, 2024
HoD – English Chris Waugh opens the classroom door on the student experience.
National Excellence in Teaching Award
In late 2019 I was anonymously nominated for a National Excellence in Teaching award, and after submitting my application - the content of which I publish here - I found myself in the beehive at a pretty flash luncheon receiving two of the awards, one for excellence...
Podcast: See Me After Class
http://achieve.edutronic.net/smac-see-me-after-class/ Now safely embedded back home in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, my restlessness has not abated. As a result I pitched the micro-credentials idea to an educational charity, The Education Hub, who are funding...
Rebel Education – A Documentary
An Al Jazeera documentary about the work we did at the London Nautical School Department of English
Give them Hope
My last assembly presentation featuring one of my heroes and an exhortation to my students to be their wonderful selves.
Presentation to Media and Technology course at UCL
Our Presentation to Pedagoo London
Our Presentation at Northern Rocks #NRocks
It’s not the mountain we conquer
This presentation was made to an assembly of 15-18 year olds on the day of their receiving their results from a series of practice examinations.
Presentation: Unlock Achievement
As part of my Deus Ex Machina series, here is the information that went with my presentation to Teachmeet Islington. Heaps more detail about our Unlock Achievement project can be found in my Journal entry on the topic
Unlock Achievement – Microcredentials for the secondary classroom
In another step towards restoring authenticity to the secondary classroom, our department has completely re-created our process of assessment. We have abandoned the old ‘curriculum levels’ model and replaced it with a standards-based badged achievement system.
Deus ex Machina
Presentation to the Sunday Times Festival of Education, exploring the “God in the Machine”. The notion that it is through setting up a class environment that concentrates on the imperatives of authenticity and agency, the aspects of learning that we...